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Quote by John Fowles
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. – John Fowles

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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. – John Fowles

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One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true – John Fowles

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. – Thomas Carlyle

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Make your life a mission-not an intermission. – Arnold Glasgow

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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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